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Sweet Little Lumbering Wellington

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There's a reason I like the Vickers Wellington, well many actually.

It's a thuggish looking twin engined bomber.
It had a huge payload compared to its contemporaries.
It was the backbone of the RAF night bombing campaign prior to the Stirling, Halifax and Lancaster.
I was born in Wellington NZ (Wellies ftw)
75th (NZ) Bomber Squadron flew them during WWII
Sgt. James Allen Ward won a Victoria Cross in one:

Sergeant James Allen Ward, RNZAF (attached to RAF)

Date of action: 7 July 1941 (over The Netherlands)
Date of award: 5 August 1941

James Ward was the first New Zealand airman to win the VC. The Whanganui-born schoolteacher joined the RNZAF in July 1940 and left for Great Britain to serve with the RAF after completing his pilot training. He won his VC while returning from a raid on the German city of Münster on 7 July 1941. When his Vickers Wellington bomber was set alight by an enemy fighter plane, Ward climbed out onto the burning wing (several thousand feet in the air) and smothered the fire. Although he was unable to block the leaking petrol pipe that was feeding it, the fire eventually burnt itself out and the badly damaged bomber limped back to base. Two months later, Ward was killed when he remained at the controls of his burning aircraft after it was hit by flak over Hamburg.

So for the last few weeks I've been playing a game called War Thunder. It's amazing, seriously amazing. Graphically beautiful, HUGE range of aircraft from the 5 major waring nations (with lesser known types added in the tech tree, ie Australia & Italy). Attack aircraft have a range of warloads that you can unlock plus most aircraft have different skins you can use also. Lots of different extra decals & insignia's too.

The P-40 has to be one of my faves as it has two RNZAF skins for Gloria Lyons and Wairarapa Wildcat, two well known P-40M/N's. You should check out WarThunder.com, you'll be amazed.
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Awwwwww Yeeeeaaaaahh! :D